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Informationen zum Autor By Fatna El Bouih Klappentext Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While imprisoned, she helped organize a hunger strike, completed her undergraduate degree in sociology, and began work on a Master's degree.Beginning with the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened political tension of the 1970s, Talk of Darkness tells the true story of one woman's struggle to secure political prisoners' rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment.Poetically rendered from Arabic into English by Mustapha Kamal and Susan Slyomovics, Fatna El Bouih's memoir exposes the techniques of state-instigated "disappearance" in Morocco and condemns the lack of laws to protect prisoners' basic human rights. Zusammenfassung The gripping memoir of a Moroccan human rights and women’s rights activist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's DedicationTranslators' IntroductionChronologyChapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: "Or the Narrative of Suffering"Chapter 2.Chapter 3.Chapter 4.Chapter 5.Chapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes PrisonChapter 7.Chapter 8.Chapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: "Imposed Violence"Chapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou PrisonChapter 11. Trial DayChapter 12. The Inseparable TwosomeChapter 13. An Incredible VisitChapter 14. "The Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber"Chapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and HappinessChapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free PersonChapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed GriefChapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman PrisonerChapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without SpringChapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi KacemChapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation inPolice Stations: Testimony of Widad BouabChapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers:Testimony of Latifa JbabdiNotes...
